Contempt Quotes - Page 4

• There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.

  Samuel Johnson

  Thinking, Doe, Poor

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.10

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• Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Fear, Views, Novelty

  William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser (1938). “Prefaces and prologues to famous books”

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• The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Clever, Self, Males

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.196, U of Nebraska Press

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• Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Imagine

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.444, Library of Alexandria

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• I suppose that one of the reasons I wrote "In Contempt" was because of the money. After the trial I came to realize that there were things that I needed to do if I was to protect myself and my family, so there were some selfish reasons for it.

  Christopher Darden

  Selfish, Trials, Realizing

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• Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Moral, Insult, Kind

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Free' is more of that 'familiarity breeds contempt' kind of thing. It's about saying 'Wait, I'm longing for something more than I have and I don't know what it is that I want, but I know I want it.' It has nothing to do with what I'm going through, personally.

  Jon Crosby

  Waiting, Want, Kind

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• Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on.

  Joyce Maynard

  Cutting, Wrath, Long

  "Joyce Maynard In Spotlight With J.D. Salinger’s Death". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2010.

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• If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Hate, Men, Energy

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.24, 谷月社

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• Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.

  Kjell Magne Bondevik

  Dignity, Terrorism, Humans

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• Radical Islamic fundamentalists harbor contempt for our democratic way of life and, given the opportunity, will stop at nothing to accomplish their goal of bringing our country to its knees.

  Paul Weyrich

  Country, Islamic, Opportunity

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• Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Race, People

  "Portraits from Memory and Other Essays". Book by Bertrand Russell (p. 198), 1956.

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• When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Feels, Involuntary

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• Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Respect, Truth

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.117, Courier Corporation

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• Contempt is not a thing to be despised.

  Edmund Burke

  Despised

  Edmund Burke (1855). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Charge against Warren Hastings concluded. Political letters”, p.299

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• There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart.

  James Martineau

  Heart, Pride, Rooms

  James Martineau (1879). “Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons”

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• It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

  Plutarch

  God, Belief, Opinion

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• Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Danger, Exposure

  "De Providentia", IV in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 158-160), 1922.

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• This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.

  Abraham Cowley

  Lying, Mean, Envy

  'Essays, in Verse and Prose' (1668) 'Of Myself'

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• Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

  Minna Antrim

  Rivers, Flow, Admiration

  "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions" by Minna Antrim, (p. 1061), 1901.

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• Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

  Isaac Barrow

  Instruments, Dues, Exposing

  Isaac Barrow (1830). “The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow”, p.354

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• The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.

  Lester Bangs

  Reality, Sin, Audience

  Lester Bangs (1988). “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung”, Anchor Books

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• I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.

  Alexander Lebed

  Radical, Equal, Left

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• What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

  Khalil Gibran

  World, This World, Knows

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• The superior thing ... was to be late. Lateness showed that serene contempt for the illusion we call time which is so necessary to ensure the respect of others and oneself. Only the servile are punctual.

  Rose Macaulay

  Lateness, Illusion, Punctuality

  Rose Macaulay (Dame.) (1923). “Mystery at Geneva”

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